Learn to Create Home Gardens
You want a nice garden, love gardening but don't really know where to start. This course will help you to not only gain the confidence to go ahead and design your garden it will also help you to understand what a plant needs to not only survive but thrive! Lots of great techniques and ideas included in this course that you may not have known:
- Different styles to suit different home owners
- Different costs to fit different budgets
- Choose the most appropriate plant cultivars and garden features
- Plan, build and develop a functional landscape to enhance family life
What this Course Covers
The ten lessons are as follows:
1. Designing Gardens
2. Styles of Gardens
3. Drawing Plans Designing Gardens
4. Understanding Soils
5. Basic Landscape Construction
6. Weeds and Pests
7. Planting and Pruning
8. Lawns and other Surfacings
9. Garden Features
10. Developing "YOUR" Garden.
Workload
Study when, where and however much you want. For most students, the course can be completed with a total of around 100 hours of study; and a commitment close to that may be needed to achieve desired learning outcomes.
Extra Reading
The following books, available through this web site are relevant supplementary reading for this course
- Garden Design Part I
- Garden Design Part II
- Landscape Gardening in the Shade
- Tropical Landscaping
- Water Gardening
- Landscaping with Australian Plants
- The Environment of Play
How Could This Course Help You?
It will give you the confidence and skills needed to draw up a great garden plant for your home (or those of your family and friends) and efficiently implement that design.